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Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center

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Declined by some courts
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
621 F.3d 249
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
85 of 85
Treatment dates
2019
Declined by some courts
At least one reviewed court has declined to follow this case. No reviewed court has overruled it. Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center has been declined by a court outside the Third Circuit. All 85 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

The confirmed treatment listed below concerns which constitutional standard governs claims by adjudicated juveniles in detention; the Wisconsin court chose the Fourteenth Amendment standard instead of the Eighth Amendment standard Betts applied.

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85 citations to Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Declined to follow

  • The court applied the Fourteenth Amendment to an adjudicated juvenile's detention claims, declining to use the Eighth Amendment standard applied in Betts.

    Apkarian v. McAllister · W.D. Wis. · filed

    Some courts have applied the Eighth Amendment and others the Fourteenth. See Betts v. New Castle Youth Dev. Ctr., 621 F.3d 249, 259 (3d Cir. 2010); ... Ultimately, because juvenile adjudications are not criminal in nature, I conclude that the proper standard to apply to Apkarian’s claims against Lincoln Hills staff is the Fourteenth Amendment.
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